NATO yesterday claimed that the U.S. had provided "clear and compelling proof" that Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network were linked to the September 11 attacks. In response, the alliance announced that it was ready to fight with the U.S. in an attack on Afghanistan.

As the Bush Administration continues its military buildup in Central Asia, peace activists around the countrycontinue to mobilize against impending war, holding hundreds of demonstrations in the last several weeks. Thisweekend more than ten thousand people converged in Washington DC for the first major antiwar demonstration. Anothermajor protest is planned this weekend in New York.

Federal agents are targeting Arab students on college campuses as part of their investigation into the Sept. 11terrorist attacks, gathering lists of foreign nationals and combing through files. Investigators began looking atcollege campuses after learning some of the alleged hijackers or their accomplices were in the country on studentvisas. Officials at universities across the country say they have received requests from the FBI.

The detention of some 500 people as part of the FBI investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks, and new legislation thatwould give law enforcement expanded powers, have raised serious concerns for civil rights groups. Their concerns havebeen exacerbated by reports of hundreds of alleged hate crimes against Muslims or those of Middle Eastern descent.

NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson announced today that the United States had presented "clear and compelling evidence" that points "conclusively" to involvement of Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaida network in last month’s attack in New York and Washington.

More than 20,000 anti-war demonstrators, including many anti-globalization activists, took to the streets of Washington DC and San Francisco to protest possible US military action in response to the attacks on US targets earlier this month. In San Francisco, almost 10,000 people converged on a park in San Francisco’s predominately Latino Mission District to denounce the Bush administration’s plans for military intervention in...

New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani disclosed yesterday that he is asking the mayoral candidates to make an unprecedenteddeal with him to "maintain the unity" in the city following the brutal attacks on the World Trade Center.